Specifications
Title | Job on the Dunghill |
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Material and technique | Pen and brown ink, indented for transfer, framing lines with the pen in brown ink |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 194 mm Width 248 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Maarten van Heemskerck
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Accession number | MB 1959/T 22 (PK) |
Credits | Purchased 1959 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1959 |
Creation date | in 1562 |
Signature | signed 'Martinus va[n] / Heemskerck' and dated '1562' (at lower right, in pen and brown ink, partially cut off) |
Watermark | none (vV, 12P, very fine paper) |
Inscriptions | '6' (at lower centre, in pen and brown ink), '52'(verso, at lower left, in pencil), 'historie van Job / no 30- van heemskerck' (verso, at the centre, in pencil, in a 17th-c. hand) |
Mark | none |
Provenance | unknown Dutch coll., second half 17th c.; Gerrit Braamcamp (1699-1771), Amsterdam, his sale (†), Amsterdam (Van der Schley et al), 31 July 1771 sqq., possibly Album B, no. 116 (‘Twee dito als boven [...] 1562’, fl. 1,10) or no. 117 (‘Twee dito als boven [...] 1562’), fl. 1,2, both to Van der Marck)[copy RKD]; Johannes Aegidisz. van der Marck (1707-1771), Leiden, his sale (†), Amsterdam (De Winter/Yver), 29 November 1773 sqq., possibly Album G, no. 600 (‘Een andere Historie van Job; als vooren getekend’, fl. 5,10 to 'Schoonh:', or no. 601 (‘Een andere dito dito’, fl. 5,5), or no. 602 (‘Een andere dito dito’, fl. 5,5)[copy RKD]; art dealer Bernard Houthakker (1884-1963), Amsterdam; acquired by the museum, 1959 |
Exhibitions | Amsterdam 1959, no. 23; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 42 |
Internal exhibitions |
Vroege Nederlandse tekeningen - Van Bosch tot Bloemaert (deel 3) (2015) |
External exhibitions |
Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | Hoetink 1961, pp. 12-14, 19-20; Washington/Fort Worth 1990, p. 116, under no. 48; Princeton/Champaign-Urbana/Pittsburgh 1991, under no. 73; New Hollstein 1993-94, I, p. 141, under no. 166; New Hollstein 2001, I, p. 89, under no. 62; Plomp 2001, p. 203 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Indenting
> Indented
> Drawing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |